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4 spangles on rivers lakes, light on the myraid stars of the snow, light sifthing through the angels of sun- illegible icebergs,
light in glacier caves, missed spray raft ing from white waterfalls, and the light of calm starry nights beheld from mountain
tops dipping deep into the clear air. Aye my lassie it is a blessed thing to go from? in the light of this beauti -ful world
to see God playing upon every thing, as a man would play on an musical instrument: His fingers upon the lightning illegible
stricken word any name of sea sky and every living thing, illegible old together illegible shine in illegible etc. some awakening
of the Universe illegible what illegible milk so for wide, now you are so over, and when I shall soon see you face to face.
01257 1 Martinez Cal. Feb. 23-'87 My Dear Friend J- Have you really turned into a woman, have you really come to California,
the land of the sun, Yosemite a' that. through the whirl of all those years, Seas between us illegible has soared, my lassie,
since the auld lange syne, and many a storm has roared over head mountains and plains since last we parted, yet - however
are but little changed in all that signifies, saved from many dangers that we know, from many more that we never shall know
- kept - alive and well by a thousand thousand miracles. Twenty years How long and how short a time that seems today,